Pakistan Cricket Legends

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The Pakistan dressing room erupts with applause as Asif Iqbal reaches his century in Sydney. (From left [sitting]): Haroon Rashid, Majid Khan, Sadiq Muhammad, Taslim Arif and Imran Khan. (Standing from left): Saleem Altaf, Wasim Bari and Sarfraz Nawaz.

The squad just before boarding the plane for the long tour (from left): Zaheer Abbas, Asif Masood, Intikhab Alam, Saleem Altaf, Mudassar Nazar, Wasim Raja, Imran Khan, Sujauddin (Manager), Imtiaz Khan (Assitant Manager), Majid Khan, Asif Iqbal, Mushtaq Mohanmmad; (sitting from left): Sarfraz Nawaz, Wasim Bari, Iqbal Qasim, Taslim Arif, Sadiq Mohammad, Javed Miandad, Sikander Bakht and (not seen in the picture), Haroon Rashid.

 

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Real Gentlemen ; Pakistan Cricket Team with Governor of Lucknow. India in 50s
Courtesy : Zaigham Imtiaz

L to R: Fazal Mahmood, Rusi Dinshaw, Syed Mohammad Husain, Abdul Hafeez Kardar, Governor of Lucknow, Nazar Muhammad, unknown, Khalid Quraishi, Mahmood Hussain, unknown, Maqsood, Khan Muhammad, unknown

Sitting L to R:
Waqar Hassan, Imtiaz Ahmad, Wazir, unknown, Israr Ali, Hanif Muhammad, Zulfiqar Ahmad, unknown.

 

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Intikhab Alam

 

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Pakistan Cricket team group : 1954 Cricket Tour of England.
Back row : L to R. Shakor Ahmed,Mahmood Hussain,Alim Ud Din,Khalid Hassan,Khalid Wazir,Hanif Mohammad.
Front row : M.E.Z.Ghazali,Fazal Mahmood,Abdul Kardar , (Earlier played for India under the name of Abdul Hafeez). Masood Ahmed,Waqar Hassan

 

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Imran Khan sets the field for Qadir during the second Test against England at Lords in 1982. Pakistan won the game.

 

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Salim Malik, Rameez Raja and Anil Dalpat in 80's

The great Majid Khan hooks a short one to the fine leg boundary at Trent Bridge, Pak us Aussies 13-06-1979

 

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Sadiq & Mushtaq in 1971

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Enjoying Tanga Sawari

Rameez Raja, Wasim Akram, Zakir Khan, Ijaz Ahmed,Asif Mujtaba, Tauseef,Qasim Umar & Abdul Qadir

 

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Happy Birthday Jimmy (Asif Iqbal) June 6, 1943

Flamboyant, dashing and a charmer on the field whether batting, bowling or fielding. Asif’s test career was brought to an abrupt and unexpected end by Noor Khan when he took over as the head of Cricket Board. Asif went on to play for Kent for another six years adding great value with his all round performance.

 

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Imran Khan bowling for Pakistan, in Sharjah, 1991.

Imran Khan signing an autograph for a young fan in Lahore just before the start of the Pakistan-India series of 1978

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1982, Imran Khan's first Test series as captain, in England

 

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Oh this one is superb! I reckon Miandad could still tonk a few today. The rest of them are past it.

 

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I. W. Johnson and A. H. Kardar shaking hands after the toss, Pakistan vs. Australia, Karachi, 1956

Courtesy : MCC/LCG

 

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Pakistan Cricket Team England Tour 1962 at Lord's Ground.
Courtesy : MCC/LCG

Remembering Merry Max
(Maqsood Ahmed (left) with Imtiaz Ahmad)

Maqsood Ahmed, who died on January 4, 1999, aged 73, was one of the handful of cricketers to score 99 in a Test without ever reaching a century. The near-miss happened in the Lahore Test between Pakistan and India in 1954-55 when Maqsood was stumped. It was an appropriate conclusion, since he was the most carefree and aggressive batsman Pakistan had in their early years of Test cricket. He played in their first 16 Tests, and hoisted the banner of Pakistani batting from the very start.

Maqsood had begun his career, before Pakistan's foundation, with 144 on his first-class debut, for Southern Punjab against Northern India at Lahore in 1944-45. He pressed the case for the new nation's elevation to Test status by scoring 137 not out against MCC on their 1951-52 tour. And on the opening day of first-class cricket by a Pakistani team in England, in 1954, he hit a thrilling 111 in two and a quarter hours at Worcester.

In Tests, his approach was successful only spasmodically, but he enlivened the closing stages of Pakistan's hefty defeat at Trent Bridge with a rousing 69, getting out trying to hit a second successive six off Bob Appleyard. The press called him Merry Max. His success at Worcester helped him get work as a club professional in the area. He became chairman of Pakistan's selectors, in 1981-82, and a successful commentator and journalist. He was the first sports editor of The News, Rawalpindi.